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Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 
AphiaID: 116998

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) > Aequoreidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Aequoreidae Eschscholtz, 1829
Synonymised
taxa
  Mesonema Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. Thalassia Salent. 24: 47-296 (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Van Beneden, P. J. 1867a. Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique (polypes). Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Belgique 36: 1-207, plates I-XIX. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Aequorea africana Millard, 1966
Species Aequorea albida L. Agassiz, 1862
Species Aequorea atrikeelis Lin, Xu, Huang & Wang, 2009
Species Aequorea australis Uchida, 1947
Species Aequorea coerulescens (Brandt, 1838)
Species Aequorea conica Browne, 1905
Species Aequorea floridana (Agassiz, 1862)
Species Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Species Aequorea globosa Eschscholtz, 1829
Species Aequorea krampi Bouillon, 1984
Species Aequorea kurangai Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010
Species Aequorea macrodactyla (Brandt, 1835)
Species Aequorea minima Bouillon, 1985
Species Aequorea nanhainensis Xu, Huang & Du, 2009
Species Aequorea papillata Huang & Xu, 1994
Species Aequorea parva Browne, 1905
Species Aequorea pensilis (Haeckel, 1879)
Species Aequorea phillipensis Watson, 1998
Species Aequorea taiwanensis Zheng, Lin, Li, Cao, Xu & Huang, 2009
Species Aequorea tenuis (Agassiz, 1862)
Species Aequorea tetranema Xu, Huang & Du, 2009
Species Aequorea victoria (Murbach & Shearer, 1902)
Species Aequorea vitrina Gosse, 1853

Species Aequorea ciliata Eschscholtz, 1829 (nomen dubium)
Species Aequorea cyanea de Blainville, 1834 (nomen dubium)
Species Aequorea eurhodina Péron & Lesueur, 1809 (nomen dubium)

Species Aequorea aequorea (Forsskål, 1775) accepted as Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Environment marine
Links To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To ITIS
Image 
Aequorea
Aequorea
added on 2011-02-01 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Moira Galbraith ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:116998
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Aequorea. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116998 on 2013-05-25
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